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A Contribution to the Morphology and Phylogeny of Chlamydodon, with Three New Species from China (Ciliophora, Cyrtophoria).

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A molecular phylogenetic investigation of Pseudoamphisiella and Parabirojimia (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Spirotrichea), two genera with ambiguous systematic positions.

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Application of an indicator based on taxonomic relatedness of ciliated protozoan assemblages for marine environmental assessment

scientific article published on 4 March 2011

Aquatic ecosystem health and trophic status classification of the Bitter Lakes along the main connecting link between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Assessing water quality and classifying trophic status for scientifically based managing the water resources of the Lake Timsah, the lake with salinity stratification along the Suez Canal

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

Beyond the "Code": A Guide to the Description and Documentation of Biodiversity in Ciliated Protists (Alveolata, Ciliophora).

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Biodiversity of marine scuticociliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from China: Description of seven morphotypes including a new species, Philaster sinensis spec. nov.

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Biodiversity of oligotrich ciliates in the South China Sea: description of three newStrombidiumspecies (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia) with phylogenetic analyses

scientific article published in 2015

Comparative Genome Analysis Reveals <i>Cis</i>-Regulatory Elements on Gene-Sized Chromosomes of Ciliated Protists

scientific article published on 21 February 2022

Complex interactions and different possible pathways among functional components of the aquatic microbial world in Farasan Archipelago, Southern Red Sea, Saudi Arabia

scientific article published on 28 December 2019

Description of two marine amphisiellid ciliates, Amphisiella milnei (Kahl, 1932) Horváth, 1950 and A. sinica sp. nov. (Ciliophora: Hypotrichia), with notes on their ontogenesis and SSU rDNA-based phylogeny

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Description of two species of caenomorphid ciliates (Ciliophora, Armophorea): Morphology and molecular phylogeny

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Descriptions of two new marine scuticociliates, Pleuronema sinica n. sp. and P. wilberti n. sp. (Ciliophora: Scuticociliatida), from the Yellow Sea, China.

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Establishment of a new hypotrichous genus, Heterotachysoma n. gen. and notes on the morphogenesis of Hemigastrostyla enigmatica (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia).

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Euplotes huizhouensis nom. nov. (Ciliophora, Euplotida), a replacement name for the junior primary homonym Euplotes tuffraui

scholarly article published in 2022

Further analyses on the evolutionary “key‐protist” <i>Halteria</i> (Protista, Ciliophora) based on transcriptomic data

scientific article published in 2019

Further analyses on the phylogeny of the subclass Scuticociliatia (Protozoa, Ciliophora) based on both nuclear and mitochondrial data

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Further consideration on the phylogeny of the Ciliophora: Analyses using both mitochondrial and nuclear data with focus on the extremely confused class Phyllopharyngea

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Highly divergent morphology but a close molecular phylogenetic relationship between two little‐known ciliate genera <i>Actinobolina</i> and <i>Papillorhabdos</i> (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) with description of two new species

scientific article published on 27 October 2023

Identification of three highly confused marine Loxophyllum (Ciliophora: Pleurostomatida) with a key to seven congeners from the China Sea.

scientific article published in July 2008

Integrative Studies on Three Epibiotic Epistylis Species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Peritrichia) in Lake Weishan Wetland, Northern China, Including the Establishment of a New Species

scientific article published in 2022

Integrative Studies on a New Ciliate <i>Campanella sinica</i> n. sp. (Protista, Ciliophora, Peritrichia) Based on the Morphological and Molecular Data, With Notes on the Phylogeny and Systematics of the Family Epistylididae

scientific article published on 30 July 2021

Integrative studies on the taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of four new Pleuronema species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia)

scientific article published in 2022

Integrative studies on three new freshwater Amphileptus species (Ciliophora, Pleurostomatida) discovered in northern China ⬇️

scientific article published in 2022

Large-scale phylogenomic analysis provides new insights into the phylogeny of the class Oligohymenophorea (Protista, Ciliophora) with establishment of a new subclass Urocentria nov. subcl

scholarly article published in 2021

Molecular phylogeny and Ultrastructure of a new population of Urostyla grandis (Ciliophora, Hypotrichida) from Harbin, China

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Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of four Remanella species (Protozoa, Ciliophora): A flagship genus of karyorelictean ciliates, with descriptions of two new species

scientific article published in January 2022

Morphological Characterizations of Four Species of Parallelostrombidium (Ciliophora, Oligotrichia), with a Note on the Phylogeny of the Genus.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Morphological and molecular characterization of Parafurgasonia zhangi spec. nov. and Chilodonella acuta Kahl, 1931 (Protozoa, Ciliophora), from a soil habitat of Saudi Arabia

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Morphological and molecular examination of the ciliate family Lagynusidae (Protista, Ciliophora, Prostomatea) with descriptions of two new genera and two new species from China

scientific article published in 2023

Morphological and molecular information of a new species of Geleia (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea), with redescriptions of two Kentrophoros species from China

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Morphological description of three marine ciliates (Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia), with establishment of a new genus and two new species ⬇️

scientific article published on May 12, 2011

Morphological description of two new ciliates (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea, Cryptopharyngidae): Apocryptopharynx discoidalis spec. nov. and Cryptopharynx minutus spec. nov.

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Morphological redescriptions of four marine ciliates (Ciliophora: Cyrtophorida: Dysteriidae) from Qingdao, China

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Morphological reports on two species of Dexiotricha (Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia), with a note on the phylogenetic position of the genus

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Morphological studies indicate that Pleuronema grolierei nov. spec. and P. coronatum Kent, 1881 represent different sections of the genus Pleuronema (Ciliophora: Scuticociliatida).

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

Morphological, ontogenetic and molecular data support strongylidiids as being closely related to Dorsomarginalia (Protozoa, Ciliophora) and reactivation of the family Strongylidiidae Fauré-Fremiet, 1961

scientific article published in 2018

Morphological, ontogenetic, and molecular investigations of freshwater hypotrich ciliates from China revealed a new genus <i>Heterodeviata</i> gen. nov. (Protista: Ciliophora), and a novel limnetic population of <i>Deviata multilineae</i>

scientific article published in 2023

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Three Cyrtophorid Ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from China, Including Two New Species, Chilodonella parauncinata sp. n. and Chlamydonella irregularis sp. n.

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Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Two Freshwater Oligotrich Ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia), Pelagostrombidium fallax (Zacharias, 1895) Krainer, 1991 and Limnostrombidium viride (Stein, 1867) Krainer, 1995, with Brief Notes on Stom

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Two Poorly Known Species of Protocruzia (Ciliophora: Protocruziida).

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Morphology and Morphogenesis of a Novel Saline Soil Hypotrichous Ciliate, Gonostomum sinicum nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia, Gonostomatidae), Including a Report on the Small Subunit rDNA Sequence.

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Morphology and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of three peniculid ciliates (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) from China, including a new Frontonia species ⬇️

scientific article published in August 2022

Morphology and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of two Diophrys-like ciliates from northern China, with notes on morphogenesis of Pseudodiophrys nigricans (Protozoa, Ciliophora).

scientific article published on 29 November 2012

Morphology and infraciliature of two new marine ciliates, Paracyrtophoron tropicum nov. gen., nov. spec. and Aegyria rostellum nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida), isolated from tropical waters in southern China.

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Morphology and infraciliature of two new marine urostylid ciliates: Metaurostylopsis struederkypkeae n. sp. and Thigmokeronopsis stoecki n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichida) from China

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Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Aegyria foissneri sp. n. and Lynchella minuta sp. n. (Ciliophora, Cyrtophoria) from brackish waters of southern China

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Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three marine Condylostoma species from China, including two new ones (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea).

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Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three new oligotrich ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from the South China Sea

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

Morphology and morphogenesis of Apoholosticha sinica n. g., n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with consideration of its systematic position among urostylids

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Morphology and morphogenesis of a new marine ciliate, Apokeronopsis bergeri nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichida), from the Yellow Sea, China

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Morphology and morphogenesis of a novel mangrove ciliate, Sterkiella subtropica sp. nov. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with phylogenetic analyses based on small-subunit rDNA sequence data

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Morphology and phylogeny of three karyorelictean ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora), including two novel species, Trachelocerca chinensis sp. n. and Tracheloraphis dragescoi sp. n.

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Morphology and phylogeny of three trachelocercids (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Karyorelictea), with description of two new species and insight into the evolution of the family Trachelocercidae

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Morphology and phylogeny of two new pleurostomatid ciliates, Epiphyllum shenzhenense n. sp. and Loxophyllum spirellum n. sp. (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from a mangrove wetland, South China

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Morphology and phylogeny of two species of Loxodes (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea), with description of a new subspecies, Loxodes striatus orientalis subsp. n.

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Morphology and small subunit rRNA gene sequence of Uronemita parabinucleata n. sp. (Ciliophora, Uronematidae), with an improved generic diagnosis

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Morphology and systematics of two freshwater urostylid ciliates, with description of a new species (Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia).

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Morphology of four new solitary sessile peritrich ciliates from the Yellow Sea, China, with description of an unidentified species of Paravorticella (Ciliophora, Peritrichia).

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Morphology of three new colonial sessile peritrich ciliates, Pseudepistylis paramphora n. sp., Zoothamnium paranii n. sp. and Z. hartwigi n. sp., with notes on Epicarchesium variabile (Ciliophora, Peritrichia).

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Morphology of three new marine Frontonia species (Ciliophora; Peniculida) with note on the phylogeny of this genus

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Morphology of three species of Amphileptus (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Pleurostomatida) from the South China Sea, with note on phylogeny of A. dragescoi sp. n.

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Morphology of two marine euplotids (Ciliophora: Euplotida), Aspidisca fusca and A. hexeris, with notes on their small subunit rRNA gene sequences

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Morphology, Cell Division, and Phylogeny of Uroleptus longicaudatus (Ciliophora, Hypotricha), a Species of the Uroleptus limnetis Complex.

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Morphology, Life Cycle, and SSU rDNA-based Phylogeny of Two Folliculinid Ciliates (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea, Folliculinidae) Collected from Subtropical Coastal Wetlands of China

scholarly article published in 2021

Morphology, Ontogeny, and Molecular Phylogeny of Two Freshwater Species of Deviata (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) from Southern China

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Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of Uroleptus (Caudiholosticha) stueberi (Foissner, 1987) comb. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha), and reclassification of the remaining Caudiholosticha species.

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of a soil ciliate, <i>Gonostomum kuehnelti</i> Foissner, 1987 (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), from northwestern China

scientific article published in 2019

Morphology, ontogenetic features and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of a soil ciliate, Bistichella cystiformans spec. nov. (Protista, Ciliophora, Stichotrichia).

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Morphology, ontogeny and molecular phylogeny of a new urostylid ciliate, Bakuella (Pseudobakuella) guangdongica n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) from southern China

scholarly article published in 2021

Morphology, ontogeny, and molecular phylogeny of two novel bakuellid-like hypotrichs (Ciliophora: Hypotrichia), with establishment of two new genera

scientific article published on 21 July 2012

Multi-Gene Phylogeny of the Ciliate Genus <i>Trachelostyla</i> (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), With Integrative Description of Two Species, <i>Trachelostyla multinucleata</i> Spec. nov. and <i>T. pediculiformis</i> (Cohn, 1866)

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

New Contribution to the Diversity of the Anaerobic Genus Metopus (Ciliophora, Armophorea), With Descriptions of Three New Marine Species

scientific article published in 2022

Notes on Homalogastra similis nom. nov. (Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia), a replacement name for the junior homonym Homalogastra binucleata Liu et al., 2020

scholarly article published in 2021

Observations on the ultrastructure of extrusomes in the hypotrichous ciliateArchitricha indica(Protist, Ciliophora)

Ontogenesis and systematic position of a new hypotrichous ciliate, Chaetospira sinica sp. nov., with an improved diagnosis of the poorly defined family Chaetospiridae Jankowski, 1985 (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 November 2022

Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic distinction of six genera of pathogenic scuticociliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) inferred from small-subunit rRNA gene sequences

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Phylogenetic positions of four hypotrichous ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora) based on SSU rRNA gene, with notes on their morphological characters

scientific article (publication date: 18 August 2015)

Phylogeny of the anaerobic ciliate genus Sonderia (Protista: Ciliophora: Plagiopylea), including the description of three novel species and a brief revision of the genus

scientific article published on 28 November 2022

Planktonic protist communities in a semi-enclosed mariculture pond: structural variation and correlation with environmental conditions

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 88 no. 7, July 2008

Redescriptions of three tintinnid ciliates, Tintinnopsis tocantinensis, T. radix, and T. cylindrica (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea), from coastal waters off China ⬇️

scientific article published on March 16, 2012

Reevaluation of the 'well-known' Paraurostyla weissei complex, with notes on the ontogenesis of a new Paraurostyla species (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Single-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals genome evolution in predatory litostomatean ciliates

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Soil ciliates of the Indian Delhi Region: Their community characteristics with emphasis on their ecological implications as sensitive bio-indicators for soil quality

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Systematic position of Discocephalus-like ciliates (Ciliophora: Spirotrichea) inferred from SSU rDNA and ontogenetic information

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Taxonomic studies on Aegyria apoliva sp. nov. and Trithigmostoma cucullulus (Müller, 1786) Jankowski, 1967 (Ciliophora, Cyrtophoria) with phylogenetic analyses

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Taxonomic studies on three marine species of Frontonia from northern China: F. didieri n. sp., F. multinucleata n. sp. and F. tchibisovae Burkovsky, 1970 (Ciliophora: Peniculida) ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 January 2008

Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogeny of Three Species of Scuticociliates From China: Citrithrix smalli gen. nov., sp. nov., Homalogastra binucleata sp. nov. and Uronema orientalis Pan et al., 2015 (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea), With the…

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Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogeny of Two New Species of Prostomatean Ciliates With Establishment of Foissnerophrys gen. n. (Alveolata, Ciliophora)

scientific article published on 18 June 2021

Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Three Species of Dysteria (Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea) Including the Description of Dysteria ozakii nom. nov.

scholarly article published in 2021

Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Two Poorly Known Ciliate Genera Balantidion and Acropisthium (Ciliophora: Litostomatea), Including a New Species of Balantidion

scientific article published in 2022

Taxonomy and SSU rDNA-Based Phylogeny of Two Heterotrich Ciliates (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea) Collected From Subtropical Wetlands of China, Including the Description of a New Species, <i>Linostomella pseudovorticella</i> n. sp

scientific article published on 07 September 2021

Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of pleurostomatid ciliates from China with a description of two new species

scientific article published in 2023

Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two poorly known ciliate genera, Balantidion and Acropisthium (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea), including a new species of Balantidion

scientific article published in 2022

Taxonomy and molecular systematics of three oligotrich (s.l.) ciliates including descriptions of two new species, Strombidium guangdongense sp. nov. and Strombidinopsis sinicum sp. nov. (Protozoa, Ciliophora)

scholarly article by Weiwei Liu et al published 4 April 2016 in Systematics and Biodiversity

Taxonomy and morphology of four "ophrys-related" scuticociliates (Protista, Ciliophora, Scuticociliata), with the description of a new genus, Paramesanophrys gen. nov.

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Taxonomy and phylogeny of three heterotrich ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora), with description of a newBlepharismaspecies

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Taxonomy and phylogeny of two species of the genus Deviata (Protista, Ciliophora) from China, with description of a new soil form, Deviata parabacilliformis sp. nov.

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Taxonomy of Three Oxytrichids (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), With Establishment of the New Species Rubrioxytricha guangzhouensis spec. nov.

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Taxonomy, morphology and molecular systematics of a new oligotrich ciliate,Williophrya maedai gen. nov., sp. nov., with redescriptions of Strombidium basimorphum and Pseudotontonia simplicidens (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia)

scholarly article by WEIWEI LIU et al published 25 August 2011 in Systematics and Biodiversity

The Morphology, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetic Analyses of Five Freshwater Colonial Peritrich Ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora), Including the Descriptions of Two New Species

scientific article published on 16 August 2021

The insights into the systematic relationship of Gastrostyla-affinitive genera, with report on a new saline soil ciliate genus and new species (Protozoa, Ciliophora)

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Utility of combining morphological characters, nuclear and mitochondrial genes: An attempt to resolve the conflicts of species identification for ciliated protists

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

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